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1,Poe is credited with defining the modern short story, creating the first literary detective and writing some of the first science fiction.

2.poes parents died when he was little at age of 3

3. he enrolled for the army and was a great officer.

4.he married he 13 year old cousin

5.he wrote with cats sitting on his shoulder.

6. had cats that he picked up from street and fed them.

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American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American romantic movement.

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Edgar Allan Poe is a writer with a depressing life. everyone he has gotten close to they have died of tuberculosis. his mother, brother wife step parents. his dad left him when he was three. the mother died a couple of days later after the dad has left them. while Poe was in the orphanage him and his siblings were separated. while time past Poe and his brother were adopted by 2 french people. his first wife name was Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe. she and Poe gotten married when she was 13 and Poe was 27. then his next woman ( future wife) name was Sarah Elmira Royster. she was engaged to Poe before he R.I.P ( In Pace Requiescat ) as Poe would say.

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1809 (Jan. 19) - Edgar Poe is born in Boston.

1811 (Dec. 26) - The orphaned Edgar is taken into the home of John and Frances Allan of Richmond. His sister, Rosalie, is taken in by Mr. and Mrs. William Mackenzie, also of Richmond. His brother, Henry, remains in Baltimore with his grandparents. Allan never legally adopts Poe, although Poe calls John Allan “Pa” and Frances Allan “Ma.” John and Frances never have children of their own. John Allan has at least one illegitimate child (Edwin Collier).

1812 (Jan. 7) - Poe is baptized by the Reverend John Buchanan and christened as “Edgar Allan Poe,” with the Allans presumably as godparents. Poe’s sister Rosalie is baptized on September 3, 1812 as “Rosalie Mackenzie Poe.”

1814 - Five year old Edgar begins his formal education. His teacher is either Clotilda or Elizabeth Fisher

1815 - Poe briefly moves on to the school of Mr. William Ewing.

1816 - Poe goes to the boarding school of the Misses Dubourg

1818 - Poe attends the Manor House School run by the Reverend John Bransby

1820 (July 22) - Edgar and his family return to America from England aboard the Martha. Stopping briefly in New York, they continue on to Richmond, Virginia, arriving there on July 27.

1827 (May 26) - Poe enlists in the United States Army under the name Edgar A. Perry.

1827 (Nov.) - Poe’s battery arrives at Fort Moultrie, Sullivan’s Island, Charleston, South Carolina.

1828 (Dec. 15) - Poe’s battery arrives at Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Virginia.

1829 (Jan. 1) - Poe is promoted to Sergeant-Major of the Regiment of Artillery.

1829 (Feb. 28) - Francis Keeling Allan, Poe’s doting foster mother, dies in Richmond. She is buried in the Shockoe Hill Cemetery on March 2. Poe obtains leave from the army and arrives in Richmond on the evening of the day following her burial.

1831 (Aug. 1) - William Henry Leonard Poe, Edgar’s older brother, dies in Baltimore, probably of tuberculosis or cholera. (Discounting the possiblity of cholera, it has been noted that the disease did not arrive in the United States until 1832.)

1834 (March 27) - John Allan, Poe’s foster father, dies in Richmond, Virginia. He is buried next to his first wife, Frances, in the Shockoe Hill Cemetery. Edgar’s name is omitted from Allan’s will and Poe inherits nothing from the large estate.

1843 (July 19) - Poe registers to study law in the office of Henry Beck Hirst, a long-time friend

1847 (Jan. 30) - Virginia Poe dies of tuberculosis in Fordham, New York. She is entombed on February 2 in the Valentine family vault in the Dutch Reformed Church at Fordham.

1849 (August 27) - Poe joins the Sons of Temperance, Shockoe Hill Division, No. 54. (This society required that its members abstain completely from the drinking of any alcoholic beverages.)

1849 (Sept. 27) - Poe leaves Richmond, perhaps aboard the steamship Pocahontas. He arrives in Baltimore on September 28.

1849 (Oct. 7) - Edgar Allan Poe dies in Baltimore in the Washington University Hospital (later Church Home and Hospital).

1849 (Oct. 8 or 9) - Edgar Allan Poe is buried in his grandfather’s lot in the Westminster Burying Ground. The ceremony is officiated by the Reverend William T. D. Clemm.

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January 9th,1809 - October 7th,1849